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Tuesday, February 9, 2021
TODAY ON THE BLOG
HEALTH EQUITY

Dreams Of A Beloved Public Health: Confronting White Supremacy In Our Field
By Ryan J. Petteway

Health equity is not something that is “achieved,” because this implies the absence of conflict. Equity scholars must be explicit in our language and goals, and judicious in our choice of research questions and methods, all of which must be rooted in antiracist, critical race, and decolonizing frameworks. Read More >>
COVID-19

A Call To Action: Immediate Deployment Of Select Repurposed Drugs For COVID-19 Outpatient Treatment
By Vikas P. Sukhatme and Vidula V. Sukhatme

During the COVID-19 emergency, a small group of the most promising FDA-approved drugs could be repurposed for COVID-19 using temporary treatment guidance by a government agency and/or health care systems. Tools to track outcomes should be made readily available and data analyzed in real time. Read More >>


HEALTH AFFAIRS BRANDED POST

POLL: Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries are Highly Satisfied with Their Coverage and Eager to Protect It
By Allyson Y. Schwartz
Supported by Better Medicare Alliance

Even as health care workers and other essential personnel worked feverishly to meet the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic, too often, the story has been one of personal loss, shared disappointment and uncertainty, and failure of our systems and institutions.
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Vital Directions for Health and Health Care

Our February issue features six commentaries from the National Academy of
Medicine’s (NAM’s) Vital Directions for Health and Health Care project, which proposes health and health care priorities for the new Biden administration. The cluster includes these articles:


This initiative was originally established by the NAM in 2016 with the goal of providing the US presidential administration as well as other policy makers, opinion leaders, and the public with nonpartisan, evidence-based analysis of the most compelling opportunities and priorities in health, health care, and biomedical science. The resulting 2017 publication brought together some 150 policy experts to provide guidance on 19 priorities. In 2020, the NAM reassessed the priorities and issues of urgent attention for the next administration; today’s cluster of commentaries is the result of the NAM’s recent review.

The publication of the Vital Directions series in Health Affairs was supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, The John A. Hartford Foundation, the National Academy of Medicine, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
HEALTH AFFAIRS PODCAST


Listen to Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interview Victor Dzau, president of the National Academy of Medicine, on the new Vital Directions publication, how health equity is fundamental for shaping health system reform, and why science should embrace social and behavioral disciplines.
A Health Podyssey

ELEVATING VOICES: Black History Month

Why are both race and class important to understanding health disparities? In a 2005 article, Ichiro Kawachi and coauthors explain that addressing health disparities requires the inclusion of race and class as codeterminants of health outcomes.

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